From
the Preface by Paul Ganster "Tijuana 1964: A
Photographic and Historical View,
was designed to present the remarkable photographs
taken in Tijuana in
June 1964 by Harry Crosby. The book was published
in 2000 and included
an essay by historians Paul Ganster, of San Diego
State University, and
David Piñera Ramírez and Antonio Padilla Corona,
both of
the Institute for Historical Research at the
Autonomous University of
Baja California in Tijuana, that set the context
for the photographs.
The book included 42 photographs in addition to
the front cover and the
back cover. The publication of Tijuana 1964 was
accompanied in October
2000 by an exhibit of selected images organized by
Tijuana's Casa de la
Cultura.¶ By 2013, the participants in the
original publication,
which has long been out of print, realized that
the 50th anniversary of
the photographs was fast approaching. Pedro Ochoa
Palacio, Director
General of the Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT),
suggested that his
institution might be interested in collaborating
on a new edition of
Tijuana 1964 and the participants in the first
edition responded
enthusiastically to the proposal. ¶The second
edition, or the
Commemorative Edition, differs from the first in a
number of ways. Most
importantly, the new publication includes 20
additional photographs and
also replaces three of the original images due to
technical reasons,
for a total of 23 new photographs. All of the
additional photographs
were made by Harry Crosby during the same two-week
period in June of
1964, as those in the first edition. Also, the
Commemorative Edition
has a revised text that sets the context for the
photographs and also
provides a discussion of the changes that are
evident in Tijuana after
50 years.

The
Imperial-Mexicali
valley is a region defined by its location along
the U.S.-Mexican border
and through the management of its natural
resources. Its complexities are
based in the initial settlement of an area
believed to be uninhabitable,
but through perseverance and ingenuity of
individuals over 100 years ago,
developed into a productive agricultural region.
The border also has had
a profound affect on its growth by providing
access to a binational labor
force and through the impacts of industrialization
of Mexico's northern
border. The editors of this text selected 30
essays from regional scholars
that discuss these central themes and provide an
understanding of the regional
dynamics. The topics covered include history and
government, economy and
agriculture, environmental concerns and natural
resources, and social trends
and culture. This collection is one of the first
to be published in English
regarding this binational region and is an
important contributor to the
discussion of future development and growth of the
Imperial-Mexicali valley.

Order
direct at the SDSU Press cyber-tienda
(cyberstore!):

Tijuana
River Watershed Atlas

The
Tijuana River
Watershed Atlas is a pioneering effort by San
Diego State University researchers
and their partners in Tijuana and San Diego to
harmonize data across the
international boundary and to provide stakeholders
and decision-makers
with comprehensive information about this
important region. The atlas,
made up of large-format sheets in a boxed edition,
is comprised of some
80 photographs, maps, and text in English and
Spanish. The atlas captures
the diversity, complexity, and dynamism of a
1,750-square-mile drainage
basin that lies astride the U.S.-Mexican
international border. This work
covers many issues pertaining to the watershed,
including its physical
characteristics and its human and environmental
aspects. This bilingual
atlas is the result of the collaboration of many
organizations and individuals
from the United States and Mexico, especially from
El Colegio de la Frontera
Norte and San Diego State University and is
published by San Diego State
University Press and the Institute for Regional
Studies of the Californias
with assistance from SDSU's Department of
Geography and from the Southwest
Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy.
According to atlas co-editor
Richard Wright of SDSU, "developing information
for the entire binational
watershed is absolutely essential to plan for the
future, to avoid environmental
problems that will negatively affect the quality
of life of the watershed's
1.4 million residents, and to take advantage of
binational synergies for
sustainable regional development."

Cooperation,
Environment,
and Sustainability in Border Regions is based
on papers
presented late in 1999 at the San Diego, California
meeting of the Border
Regions in Transition (BRIT) group. An international
network of border
specialists, the BRIT group has also convened in
Berlin (1994), Joensuu
on the Finnish-Russian border (1997), and in
Chandigarh, India, near the
Indian-Pakistani border (2000). Key themes of this
volume are transborder
cooperation, border environmental concerns, and
issues of sustainable development
in border regions, including the U.S.-Mexican border
region, European border
regions, the Baltic region, Russian-Finnish border
areas, and Asian border
regions. Also included are essays on methodological
and theoretical approaches
to border research.

This
bilingual Atlas integrates
U.S. and Mexican data to provide a harmonized view
of the binational strip
of land that serves as an interface between San
Diego and Tijuana. The Atlas
includes 15 full-color thematic maps of the San
Diego-Tijuana border region
and 35 black-and-white photographs. Detailed
thematic essays by experts
provide context and commentary for understanding
the maps. Essay topics
include: land use, planned land use, water,
sewage, transportation infrastructure,
population, employment, public facilities,
vegetation and land cover, topography
and hydrography, and others. The Atlas was
produced through the
collaboration of San Diego State University's
Institute for Regional Studies
of the Californias, The SDSU Department of
Geography, the Municipal Planning
Institute of Tijuana (IMPlan), the City of San
Diego, the San Diego Association
of Governments and San Diego State University
Press.

Published
in English
and Spanish, this guide provides an introduction
to the important subjects
of child care and family planning in the cities of
Mexico's norther border
region and a description of the efforts of the
maquiladoras in these areas.

Important
information
on the early social and demographic history of
Baja California and Alta
California; co-published with the Universidad
Autónoma de Baja California
and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Proceedings
of
the Second Annual Symposium: San Diego-Tijuana in
Transition,Tijuana; the
first-ever collaborative study of the San
Diego-Tijuana region carried
out by leading U. S. and Mexican experts from SDSU
and el Colegio de la
Frontera.